Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-15

| in the prints over there about my declar-
Ing my intentions of citizenship. 1 be-
lieve they are beginning to regard me as
an American actress. Dove really think
am beginning to lose my English accent?
II am, am rather glad LOT il, because l
don't'think the accent particularly pretty.
| sometimes wonder st myself over my
present determination, when l compare
it with the resolutions l used to cherish
during my first season in America. Then
l thought l never would come back here,
the attacks on me were so personal and
so cruel. But at the end Of the season
| determined to come back and work out
my vindication. l don't know where
! got the pluck to make this resolution. II
is all changed now and / am received
with kindness everywhere. But l have
never altogether gotten over that first
J fear. 1t has left me timid and nervous.
| never used to 60 out then, except to the
theater, and then l wore the very thick
| est veil | could find and dashed from the
carriage to the stage door without taking
breath. | remember still some CT the
cruel things which the boys in
| the crowd used TO cry after
me, which were suggested of course
| by what appeared in the papers. Yes,
resd the papers. 1t was agony, but l
read them. s.. Louis was the worst.
But don't think tie big papers indulge
in personalities 1t all suCh as they did
several years ago. The generosity which
one naturally associates with bigness has
come to the front; l suppose in small
towns, however, the generosity is still
lacking. But in these places l very sell
dom see what. the papers print. | am
there so short time thstI have sChOoled
myself to think that it doesn't make much
difference. | had an Interesting expert
ence at San Jose in California; lovely
little town, by the wsy-one of the local
papers there printed something unkiDd
about me. | didn't read it, but heard
about it; people around me asked if had
seen it, and when l told them l
hadn't, they good naturediy quoted
fragments of it, you know how people
are. OiCourse l expressed my gratitude,
said how exceedingly kind of him TO 60
into nay personal affairs and thought no
more about it. The article, which must
have been very nasty and despiCable
one, appeared after my first performance.
l was booked for two performances.
When l came en- the stage the same night,
the audience rose up en- masse and ap-
plauded and huZZaed and waved their
handkerchiets for nearly ten minutes.
didn't understand it, was quite over
come as the cheering continued and burst
into tears. l learned afterW6rd that the
demonstration was protest against the
newspaper publication. Wasn't it kind "
Mrs. Langtry talked with the utmost
frankness about her professional C lreer
and her plans for the future, and it was
evident from the color of what she said
that she is honestly and earnestly am
bilious to succeed in her art. She regards
with justice the success she has attained
thus far in an artistic way as the best
possible answer TO t7Ose critics who a
short time ago were busily asserting that
she made the temple of the drama Simply
a market for her personal beauty and the
fame which it had brought her.
II. S. HEWITT.